A dental charity has visited Newquay to provide emergency treatment to people who have struggled to get a dental appointment.

Dentaid provided appointments in its mobile dental van to 10 people at Rialton Heights last Wednesday and a further 10 at the piazza on Thursday.

Patient Maureen Gibson receives treatment (Warren Wilkins/Voice Newspaper)

Cornwall councillors Kevin Towill, Olly Monk and Louis Gardner pooled together £4,000 from part of their Community Chest monies to provide free treatment to people who have been unable to secure an NHS dentist and have no way to pay for private dental treatment.

They worked in partnership with Rialton Residents Association on the initiative, which was Dentaid’s first ever visit to Cornwall.

Read more about the dental charity's visit in next week's Newquay Voice.

Patient maureen Gibson ahead of her treatment (Warren Wilkins/Voice Newspapers)